Lagos 2023: “I Will Turn Lagos From a MEGA CITY to a SMART CITY” – Hon. Hakeem Onikoyi Of Accord Party.
By Naomi Onojaefe
The man with a vision is he who sees opportunity, put then into utilisation while he requires a woman with direction, as such is the case of Hon. Hakeem Onikoyi, Governorship candidate for Accord party and his Dept. ESV. Mojisola Afolaya, to portray the motto: Oneness and Progress, in Lagos.
The governorship candidate of Accord Party, Hon. Hakeem is an Accountant, a health and safety expert, a one time Executive chairman of Surulere loc govt who had in his prowess performed to an optimum stage when in office.Afterwards, he was director general for the Lagos State Safety Commission until 2018.
The press had an interactive session with the governorship candidate of Accord as he gave an insight about his agenda, personality as well as a low down on his ambition, aim, goals and objectives.
Hon. Hakeem further talked about his intended project with a wide range of activities and accomplishments to be established. He is no doubt a noble man with the acumen to do what is needed to restructure Lagos from the supposed mega city to a reformed state, devoid of miscreants but of people with a purpose for absolute development.
Hon. Hakeem is well read, widely travelled, a well experienced politician who understands the importance of creating a certain standard in nation building. This reforms was well established by him during his tenure as the Executive chairman of surulere loc. Govt where he championed several projects to bring about development as well as serve the purpose of the people within his jurisdiction. These accomplishments had earned him multiple awards but significantly he had 3 awards consecutively from lasg in appraisal for his resilience in making surulere and its environs habitable enough for its citizens by creating infrastructural developments and maximum health care services amongst other developments achieved.
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In his quest to advance in efforts from the achievements attained in past leadership positions held, Hon. Hakeem, the Accord governorship candidate recounted his aims and agenda to serve Lagos. Notably, Lagos is already a megacity, what the HOD Accord seeks to do is to ensure that Lagos becomes a livable, safe and sustainable city; and to provide realistic solutions to the defects that had come with the megacity actualisation.
He stated that Accord will ensure that rulership in Lagos will be handed over to the youth in time to come, that Lagos will be made a SMART CITY not a MEGA CITY. The outcome of the development so far in making Lagos a mega city ( The 1999 Vision) has only yielded an increase in population leading to overpopulation, incessant crimes, environmental pollution, insufficient employment opportunities, increase in illegal activities,insufficient housing facilities, underfunded medical care system, insufficient health care centres and as such demands a total overhaul, Hon. Hakeem quipped.
The Agenda of Accord party in Lagos is to restore sanctity to the increasing menace in today’s Lagos thereby creating a total reform to restore freedom, health, safety and environmental degradation, security issues, to promote information, communication and technology, restore quality education, infrastructural development, promote arts,culture, entertainment, tourism and sports as well as many other unaddressed areas of concern. The aim of this put to place variants is to make Lagos a SAFE CITY.
He implores that Nigerians should take a stand to do the right thing by voting wisely without fear or favour having in mind the perpetual negative effect the Mega City disposition had created.
Here’s a brief profile of Hon. Hakeem Onikoyi….
HON. HAKEEM OLAOGUN ONIKOYI-DICKSON
Hon. Hakeem Dickson was born on May 5, 1957. He attended Breadfruit Primary School on Lagos Island and
then transferred to Surulere Baptist School in the late 1960s after his family relocated to Surulere, Lagos, due to the construction of the Eko Bridge, which greatly affected the Dickson family house. He completed his primary education at Surulere Baptist School and obtained his first school leaving certificate in 1972.
Hakeem Dickson attended Victory High School in Ikeja and obtained his West African School Certificate in1976. He is a seasoned accountant and health and safety practitioner by profession, as well as a politician.
Hakeem Ologun Onikoyi-Dickson is an Awori prince from Itireland and the Onikoyi kingdom.Hakeem Dickson earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Thomas A. Edison StateCollege in Trenton, New Jersey, and two master’s degrees in Business Administration, specialising in
accounting and finance, from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1983 and 1985,respectively.
Upon completion of his National Youth Service program, which he did at Nigerian Airways in 1984, Hakeem
Dickson started his career at Coopers and Lybrand CPA, Newark, New Jersey, in 1988 as a staff accountant,
external auditor, and tax adviser.
Hakeem Dickson then returned to Nigeria to contest and win an election as the Executive Chairman of the Surulere Local Government in 1998. Afterwards, he was director general for the Lagos State Safety
Commission until 2018.
Dickson’s strengths are his ability to plan and counterplan, as well as his ability to take calculable risks and
invest in people. As both innovative, creative, and strategic in the bargain, Hakeem Dickson has been
praised as an excellent manager of people and properties and an excellent innovator who came up with the blueprints of some of the structures that exist in Lagos today.
As a business-minded individual, his appointment as Director-General of the Lagos State Safety Commission and his innovations revamped the Commission from a liability to an asset. Hakeem Dickson is married and has children.
Here’s also a brief profile of Hon. Hakeem’s Deputy, ESV. Mojisola Afolayan:
ESV Mojisola Afolayan, ANIVS RSV
Mojisola was born and raised in Lagos. She had her Primary Education at Santa Maria Private School Lagos. Secondary Education at the Reagan Memorial Baptist Girls’ Secondary School Yaba, Lagos.
She obtained a bachelor’s in Estate Management from the prestigious Covenant University, Otta. She also has master’s degree from the University of Lagos. Mojisola is a highly accomplished and seasoned professional with over a tem years of experience in Banking and Real Estate. She is a driver of growth and
profitability within organisation she finds herself.
She is the principal partner at Mojisola AfolayanEstates, a real estate consulting and advisory firm, and Director at CDRE DEVELOPMENTS Limited, a property development company based in Lagos Nigeria.
Before setting up her own firm, she was the Lagos branch and western regional manager of Ayeye & co, an estate surveying and valuation firm.
She is the founder of a real estate investment club known as Chics Doing Real Estate, which isfocused on teaching women how to confidently invest in real estate.
She is also an advocate for wealth empowerment in Africa through property investment education.
She is also the convener of the Real Estate Blueprint conference and the author of two real estate books, The Property Investment Guide and Over 100 Answers to Nagging Questions about Real Estate Investment in Nigeria.
Her pioneer project The Relive Housing Project, a social housing project championed by CDRE Developments Limited, is focused on helping starter investors own decent, good-quality homes at fantastic prices, with a goal of empowering 10,000 starter families within the next five years through their unique property co-ownership schemes.
She is an associate of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) and Women in Management Business and Public Service( WIMBIZ).
To clear the air on some unfounded reports bordering about his arrest in 1991, Hon. Hakeem told the press the actual story is in context as against the unverified reports circulating the internet, says it was a case of misinterpretation as well as misinformation and it has been sorted out.
